St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-12
1T is VERY FUNNY.
The Boston Method of Getting
Around Evictions.

Inc Boston MetnOO OF Getting
Around Evictions.
Special to the Globe.
Boston, Sept. 11.-Mrs. Connor and
her five children, who have been be-
sieged in their Mount Vernon street
home by five evictors, who are waiting
night and day to put them out, scored
point to-day by getting her husband
into the house. 1t is two weeks to-day
since cOnStableS surrounded the house,
and Mrs. Connor locked the doors on
them. In all that time neither she nor
her children have stirred out of their
rooms, and Mr.. ConnOr, who was, I'M
fortunately, out when the evictors ar
rived, has not got nearer to his
family than the sidewalk. The
cause of the seige is unique. Connor
leased the house and occupied it with
another family, which owed him two
months rent. COnnOr'S child made
disagreeable remark to the tenant about
the debt and the tenant got mad. He
went to the owner of the house and
hired it at more rent than Connor
was paying and gave Connor notice to
leave. COnnOr refused to 60 and con-
stables were called to put the family
out. But Mrs. Connor locked the doors
and the law prohibits constables from
breaking them down, so the
officers of the law camped outside the
house and laid seige to it,
well content to stay as long as necessary
at So per day. For two weeks ConnOr
has been coddling his brains to think of
some way to get to his family and yet
avoid the watchful cOnStables. To-day
family next door, and frightened up the
clothes line that runs out to post in
the yard. Mrs. Connor reached out of her
back window and did the same with her
clothes line. The watchful husband
then borrowed an ironing board and laid
it upon the two clothes lines and
cautiously crawled on his belly
to the window of his own
room, where his delighted wife
threw her arms about him and pulled
him into the house. The dildren danced
up and down with delight and cOnSta-
BILE in the hall pounded ON the door to
try and allay their happiness, while
COnnor was at the front window smiling
at the disconnected evictors and holding
converse with his neighbors. A fire.
man from No. 10 passed along and sug-
geSted that a ladder would be good
means of exit and entrance. Being
friend of the imprisoned man, he said
that if COnnor would come along to the
engine house he thought he could scare
up ladder. The idea struck Connor as
excellent and he crawled across the
ironing board, and in half an hour was
back to the house with a ladder. Mrs.
Connor opened the front window and
her husband was with her once more.
and the ladder was pulled up after him
During the forenoon the water supply,
which has been turned off, became eX-
hausted. and the children's faces began
to show the shortage in this direction.
1t suddenly occurred to Mr.. Connor that
he might make connection with his
neighbOr's water pipe by means of a
rubber hose. The ladder was carefully
adjusted once more, and, after a
visit to the engine house, he
trudged back with a coil of pipe under
his arm. The water supply is now
abundant. This afternoon Connor was
smiling at the window. He at once let
down the ladder from the second story
window and the correspondent climbed
up. He was the only outsider they
have had for two weeks. The butcher,
baker and grocer send up plenty of pro-
visions and, now that the water supply
is all right, there is no danger of famine
or drought. Connor says he will hold
till the sheriff breaks in with power of
writ of ejectment, which he cannot do
for two weeks yet.